Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-22

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of a course which is being conducted TO
the teneft of the public schools o
Mitchell The lecture was financially
success,
The members of the territorial militii
are in a furore of excitement over /,
rumor which is going the rounds to the
effect that the territorial encampmentl
will be omitted for the next two years
aud that the d. N. G. will then visit the
national capitol and participate in .
national encampment at that place.
Some youthful granger, aged about
nineteen years, who was recently in the
Yankton police court for being drunk,
swore that he obtained his whiskey o.
James Donahue and Mr.. Donahue is
after him to-day with an officer. as the
story is false. He turned up missing to.
day when the police sought for him.
1t was stated in the temperance meet
ing last night, that a Yankton grocer
was damaging the cause of prohibition
by feeding cider to boys of q tender age,
and thereby c%ultivatlng II them the
germs of drunkenness. The gentleman
who alluded to this matter was somewhat
menacing In his tone, and possibly the
grocer would dc well to look q little out,
Early this morning Sergeant Thomp-
son pulled down the cold wave flag which
for two days fruitlessly Haunted Its chill
ling warning from the weather pole. At
l0:40 O'Clock he received directions from
Washington to restore the flag to its
place and the warning it conveys is that
before two O'Clock p. m. next Monday
the temperature will fall from fifteen to
thirty degrees.
A. Logan and Free memorial service
was held by Phil Kearney post, g, A. R.
at the hall last night, during which short
speeches were made by nearly every
person present. Only members OF the
post were admitted, and the remarks
were of q soldierly nature and highly
interesting to soldiers. The eulogy on
General Logan made by Joseph Elmer
son, who served with Logan all through
tie war, was particularly good.
j. B. Wynn and 7. B. Burleigh are
luxuriatlng In the orange groves at Col.
ton. California, and Mr.. Wynn is i'm
proving in health. 1t is probable that
they have been joined ere this by j. r.
Gamble and family. The list OF Yankss
~tonians at Cotton is: Captain and Mrs
t. B. Burleiah, j. B. Wynn. Mr.. and.
Mrs. J.R. Gamble and three children
John Davis and family and possibly J
A. Kent. Burieigh and Wynn have been
spending considerable time at San
Diego, near Cotton, where Charley Col
Inns, the disooyerer of Dakota and ex-
lord mayor Of Brule CITY, is located and
accommodating riches.
A contract has been made between
the Yankton pressed brick company and
Karr & Richey for the construction Of
an arteslan we'll at tho. manufactory OF
the brick company at the head of Second
| street in west Yankton. The contract
calls for Q we'll about six hundred feet in
depth and Six inches in diameter, cased
to the water bearing rock. 1t is to be
in all respects as good q we'll as the one
which supp les the city with water ant
will be sunk to the level OF that we'll
1t is the design OF the brick company t.
use this well for power in connection
l with a turbine wheel 10 be turned by
the flow from the we'll. This is an un-
dertaklng OF vast Importance to Yank-
ton. If the water beneath ne Can bt
made to turn machinery it will prove q
source OF almost limitless manufactur
ing prosperity.
Money TO loan G.. w. RORERTs.